Jalan is also one of the online hotels, ryokans, minshuku, etc. booking site in Japan. Ordinary, travel magazine published by Recruit Holdings. You may have seen TripAdvisor, excellent site but here you can find a lot of detailed information on Jalan. On Jalan customer's reviews is named "クチコミ Kuchikomi" the meaning "Word of mouth or viva voce". You can find Kuchikomi on the international site but the translation seem little bit poor and the information are not updated frequently. If you want to dig deep Japan here below are the way to see!

First prepare translation app or extensions. (It still little bit strange translation but it seems google and bing are working better these days)

If you are using Chrome check the Offer to translate pages in the Setting. ​

Once you find the accommodation which you want to know copy the accommodation's Japanese characters name, example below.

Then paste the Japanese characters name with じゃらん at your search site. Find "www.jalan.net/xxxxx/kuchikomi" site address like as below.

If you cannot find "www.jalan.net/xxxxx/kuchikomi" go to "www.jalan.net/xxxxx/" so you can find like a below page. Then click クチコミ.

The customer's voice will help you to choose not only accommodations, you may also find some information around the accommodation. Such as how far the convenience store is, or supermarket, drugstore near by, site location noisy or calm, ease of access, some local events, etc. As you may know Japanese customer is quite severe for Omotenashi (hospitality) so I hope you can find a valuable reviews!

Rakuten Travel, one of the major hotels, ryokans, minshuku, etc. booking site in Japan. Previously named "Tabi Mado" started in 1996. You may have seen TripAdvisor, excellent site but here you can find a lot of detailed information on Rakuten Travel. On Rakuten Travel the reviews are described "お客さまの声 Okyaku-sama no koe" which means "customer's voices". Unfortunately, the voices are not translated in other languages on the international booking site, therefore you have to do some procedure to know. It will be little bit messy but you may definitely have a lot of information.

First prepare translation app or extensions. (It still little bit strange translation but it seems google and bing are working better these days) ​

If you are using Chrome check the Offer to translate pages in the Setting.

Once you find the accommodation which you want to know copy the accommodation's phone number, example as below.

Then paste the phone numbers with 楽天トラベル at your search site. Find "travel.rakuten.co.jp" and the same phone number like as below. Sometimes, it is better to include space between the phone number and 楽天トラベル

Use translation then click customer's voice

The customer's voice will help you to choose not only accommodations, you may also find some information around the accommodation. Such as how far the convenience store is, or supermarket, drugstore near by, site location noisy or calm, ease of access, some local events, etc. As you may know Japanese customer is quite severe for Omotenashi (hospitality) so I hope you can find a valuable reviews!

There are lot of online hotel booking site to travel the world Expedia, agoda, Booking com. etc. But if your are planning a trip to Japan, why don't you find from Japanese local online booking site? Some hotels or ryokans are more cost lower than major booking sites, and also you can find some unique accommodation. Maybe you have seen before on the tripadvisor or somewhere but wasn't it hard to reach your preferred language site? If you are interested here below you can reach the international site. (Go through from the characters)